Chapter Summaries

After reaching Ninth Rank, Anvis sealed a mysterious Dark Red Eyeball and unlocked the Old Days Prophecy’s final passage, which warned that the end was coming. His return also caused the Fate Stone Tower to ring twelve times, revealing the emergence of a second Ninth Rank Diviner.

• Instan rushed into the library, discovered Anvis had reached Ninth Rank, and struggled to believe what he saw.
• Anvis told Claire that the Wishing Orb was in the Olyvendi Family Treasure Vault and promised to retrieve it for her.
• Claire and Instan spotted a Dark Red Eyeball behind Anvis, and the Old Days Secret Scripture struggled to seal it until Anvis severed it from its root with Rule Power.
• Anvis opened the prophecy’s final pages and saw a blood-written warning: “The End is Coming—”.
• The Fate Stone Tower rang twelve times, alarming the continent’s leaders, and the Star Gazer concluded that a second Ninth Rank Diviner had appeared.

After learning that Anvis had become a Ninth Rank Diviner, the Star Gazer warned him that the Darkness Apocalypse could no longer be stopped and urged him to flee. Anvis made a request, and the Continental Magic Council publicly invited Mirror to a dialogue, which Mirror accepted.

• The Star Gazer discovered that Mirror’s aura had vanished and realized Mirror had likely reached the ninth rank.
• The Star Gazer contacted Anvis and explained that his changed fate had prevented the destined Child of Destiny from emerging, leaving the world vulnerable to the ancient Dark Beings.
• Anvis asked whether the Star Gazer could sense anything within him connected to ending the Darkness Apocalypse, then made a request.
• The Star Gazer, Mystic Seeker Orvanni, and Veronica of the Ring of Space-Time held an emergency meeting, after which Orvanni announced a public dialogue with Mirror.
• Mirror accepted the Continental Magic Council’s invitation.

After Anvis Olivenndi became known across the continent as a Ninth Rank Diviner and the new head of the Olyvendi Family, nobles who had opposed his family debated how to respond. Earl Baloska shocked the gathered nobles by revealing that he acted on Anvis’s behalf.

• The Continental Magic Council’s three Speakers met with Anvis and reached a mutual non-aggression agreement, while the Olyvendi Family announced him as its new head.
• Ailisha, Landon, and Lia discussed the risk of eventually opposing Anvis if the Enoch Family sought aid from the Olyvendi Family, and Ailisha left the decision to His Eminence Aluke.
• Earl Baloska and other nobles discussed their fear of Anvis and whether they could resist him, while Earl Limerra urged them to unite under the protection of the Imperial Royal Family.
• Earl Baloska rose and told the nobles he brought greetings on behalf of His Eminence Anvis.

Anvis arranged the deaths of the nobles who opposed the Olyvendi Family, then formally became Duke Carlras as the empire’s balance of power shifted. While others watched to see how he would respond to the crisis among the Four Great Families, Anvis took his Floating City into the Deep Dream World.

• Earl Baloska poisoned and trapped the nobles at his banquet, then slaughtered them on Anvis’s orders.
• Anvis stopped a royal guardian from intervening at Baloska’s castle, and the guardian left after sensing only one survivor in the banquet hall.
• Marquis Poloqi died, and the royal family transferred half of his remaining assets and territories to the Olyvendi Family as compensation.
• Anvis formally succeeded as Duke Carlras in the Imperial Palace, with the gray one conducting the investiture.
• Anvis’s rise as a Ninth Rank Diviner halted the war against the Four Great Families, while he arranged for Duke Carlot to handle the families he would not aid himself.
• Anvis piloted his Floating City into the Deep Dream World with his true body.

Anvis brought Emily into the Dream World to use the Nightmare Lantern as a medium to locate the Dead Sea Lantern, an artifact that could guide its bearer through the Underworld Sea. He found it on Black Sand Island beside the crowned skeleton of Gloria Augustine, whose inscription revealed that she had trapped and slain the Chaos Serpent Liantane there.

• Anvis took Emily and the Floating City deep into the Dream World, explaining that he needed her connection to the Nightmare Lantern to find the Dead Sea Lantern.
• Anvis manifested Emily's Ninth Rank Fate Projection, which summoned the Nightmare Lantern's true form, and used Fate Tracing to find the artifact.
• Anvis followed the guiding thread through the Deep Dream World, avoiding powerful Dream Creatures and Ancient God Dreams as the surroundings gave way to darkness and despair.
• Anvis reached a vast, lifeless ocean and followed the thread to Black Sand Island, where he found a crowned skeleton holding the Dead Sea Lantern.
• Anvis read Gloria Augustine's inscription, which said she had lured the Chaos Serpent Liantane to the Dream World's depths and slain it there.

Anvis used Fate Tracing on Emperor Gloria’s remains and glimpsed the battle with the Giant Serpent Liatan E before the vision shattered. A message left by Gloria explained how alien rules and the Dead Sea Lantern could destroy weakened Legendary beings, giving Anvis a possible method to use against them.

• Anvis recognized Gloria Augustine’s signature and used the silver skeleton to perform Fate Tracing on the battle with the Giant Serpent Liatan E.
• Anvis saw a figure withstand darkness beneath a deep-blue radiance until a gigantic blood-red eye appeared, then the vision shattered and the ritual’s backlash destroyed the skeleton.
• A Star-shaped Gem on the crown projected a message from Emperor Gloria warning that mortals could not defeat Legendary beings through direct combat.
• Gloria explained that she had weakened the serpent with Star Cocoon, locked onto its true body with the Dead Sea Lantern, and destroyed it by detonating her Dao Path against the rules of the Deep Dream World.
• Anvis thanked Gloria, took the Dead Sea Lantern, and left the crown and ashes behind, reflecting on how collisions between alien rules could erase Legendary beings.

After learning that Pope Saint Messiah III was hiding a secret plan, Anvis sent Yanile to investigate and discovered the Pope’s fate was concealed from divination. The Pope took Yanile to a cavern beneath the First Holy Radiance Cathedral, where he revealed the Church’s “God” was a crystal vessel and that no god or God’s Kingdom had ever existed.

• Anvis learned from Yanile that Pope Saint Messiah III was preparing a secret plan, then failed to divine the Pope’s or the Church’s fate and ordered Yanile to investigate.
• Pope Saint Messiah III led Yanile through a secret passage beneath the First Holy Radiance Cathedral to an enormous crystal filled with Faith Power.
• The Pope told Yanile that the crystal was the object the Church worshipped and that it was connected to the true descent of their Lord.
• The Pope revealed that no god or God’s Kingdom had ever existed, and that believers’ faith had answered their prayers and formed the source of Holy Power.

Saint Messiah III revealed to Yanile that the Church’s God was an alchemical vessel powered by faith, then explained that ancient gods had vanished after the War of the End. With Dark Beings approaching, the Pope planned to create a god to protect the world and asked Yanile to help.

• Yanile’s faith faltered when Saint Messiah III revealed the truth about the Crystal Stone, but Yanile recovered and the Pope said his belief in light qualified him to become Pope.
• Saint Messiah III explained that the Crystal Stone was an alchemical creation containing Faith Power, not a god or a gateway to a God’s Kingdom.
• The Pope told Yanile that the High Elves had suspended the ancient War of the End at the cost of the world’s future, and that the war still continued across time.
• Saint Messiah III revealed that Dark Beings had found the Main Material World’s coordinates and declared that he would create a god to protect the world.
• Yanile called the plan blasphemy, but Saint Messiah III argued that humanity had brought God into existence through its need for light, and Yanile asked what the Pope needed him to do.

Anvis learned that Saint Messiah III planned to use the Church’s Faith Power to restore the world rules during the Divine Grace Festival, with Yanile serving as the Holy Body ritual’s core. At the ceremony, the Pope announced that the Day of Final Judgment would arrive within the month.

• Yanile told Anvis that Saint Messiah III intended to transform the Empire into Holy Soil and restore the missing world rules using Faith Power.
• Anvis considered what might happen if the original world rules returned after the Church had already restored them, then asked when the ritual would begin.
• Yanile said the ritual would start on the first day of the Divine Grace Festival, and Anvis asked to be notified when it activated.
• On the festival’s first day, strange spatial distortions covered the sky across the continent as believers gathered to watch Saint Messiah III’s sermon.
• At noon, Saint Messiah III announced that an Oracle had revealed the Day of Final Judgment would arrive within the month.

Saint Messiah III declared that the Day of Judgment was near and rallied believers to pray, completing the Holy Soil ritual while Yanile activated the Holy Body ritual. As the rituals spread across the empire, the Star Gazer ordered the Magic Council to begin its preparations.

• Saint Messiah III warned that the Day of Judgment was coming and urged believers to see it as a chance to create a better world.
• The believers' prayers gathered Faith Power, and Holy Soil was completed beneath Holy City Gansawalan.
• Yanile received Saint Messiah III's secret order, entered the Saint state, and activated Holy Body through the pipe organ at Holy Hymn Cathedral.
• The sacred aura reached the City of Sacred Chants and strengthened the Faceless Angel Phantom embracing the cathedral.
• After watching the broadcast, the Star Gazer told the Magic Council to begin.

The Star Gazer explained that the Magic Council planned to escape the world by following the breach created by Saint Messiah III’s artificial God’s Kingdom. As Holy Soil spread across the Saint Messiah Empire, the Pope faced a revolt from Saint Arbiter Yorgensen and several bishops.

• The Star Gazer warned the Spellcasters that the Dark Beings would overwhelm the world and offered them a chance to leave aboard the Floating City.
• The Star Gazer revealed that Saint Messiah III planned to create a god and carry the Holy Soil-transformed empire into the Endless Underworld Sea.
• The Star Gazer said the Magic Council would follow the breach left by the newborn God’s Kingdom before it closed.
• Holy Soil covered the Saint Messiah Empire, granting its inhabitants and Players powerful holy-related benefits.
• Saint Arbiter Yorgensen accused Saint Messiah III of blasphemy, declared him a heretic, and confronted him as several bishops prepared to fight.

Saint Messiah III completed the final Holy Spirit Ritual and began ascending to godhood as believers renewed their faith in him. At the Fate Stone Tower, Anvis reconsidered the High Elf Prophet’s plan and wondered whether the tower was a lighthouse.

• Saint Messiah III rejected Yorgensen’s accusation of blasphemy and lifted the Holy Grail from the altar.
• Yorgensen and the other Archbishops attacked the Pope, but their weapons and spells failed, and some Archbishops disintegrated as their sacred power submitted to him.
• Saint Messiah III explained that the Holy Spirit Ritual had made him the source of sacred power and urged believers to keep their faith in him.
• Believers across the Saint Messiah Empire prayed for the Pope, sending a vast new ocean of Faith Power toward him.
• At the Fate Stone Tower, Anvis reviewed what he had thought the High Elf Prophet intended and suggested the tower resembled a lighthouse.

Anvis realized that his dual status as a Native and an Outsider, along with his ability to see the System Panel, might let him borrow the System’s power to end the Darkness Apocalypse. Carrying the Dead Sea Lantern, he entered the Fate Stone Tower and saw visions of the ancient war as he climbed.

• Anvis asked Pigeon whether the world was real and concluded that his connection to the System could help defeat the dark gods.
• Pigeon told Anvis to do what he wanted, and Anvis set out to end the war.
• Anvis entered the Fate Stone Tower with the Dead Sea Lantern, which let him pass through the disorienting Fate Mist.
• Anvis climbed into a starry expanse and saw the World Tree and High Elf cities resisting the darkness below.
• Anvis watched a Floating City cluster escape the Dark Beings and realized the scenes changed as he moved along the stairs.

Anvis reached the core of Uniwal’s Dream Ritual on Purple Moon Emis and learned that the Gray-White Sphere there was the Inclination Point connecting the Dream World to reality. He realized that destroying it would collapse the Dream World and free the sealed Dark Beings, but he chose not to act yet.

• As the Floating Cities fled toward the final door, Purple Moon Emis struck them, destroying half their formation before crashing into Uniwal and shattering the World Tree’s barrier and the surrounding continent.
• Anvis entered the door of light and arrived in a vast crater on Purple Moon Emis, where he found a Gray-White Sphere floating at its center.
• When Anvis touched the sphere with his Spiritual Power, he saw across Uniwal and noticed the Faceless Angel Phantom growing stronger in the Saint Messiah Empire.
• Anvis received High Elf Prophet Hill’s message identifying the sphere as the Inclination Point, whose destruction would collapse the Dream World and free the Dark Beings.
• After considering the consequences while watching the Faceless Angel Phantom, Anvis decided not to destroy the Inclination Point yet.

Anvis shattered the Gray-White Sphere, causing the Dream World to collapse and unleashing the ancient Dark Beings sealed within it. The returning world rules crushed Saint Messiah III’s newborn God's Kingdom, broke the Legendary Barrier for Ninth Rank Limit powerhouses, and struck the weakened Dark Beings, though the strongest survived.

• As Saint Messiah III completed his god-ascension ritual, Anvis gathered Rule Power and shattered the Gray-White Sphere, triggering the Dream World’s collapse.
• The Guiding Star became a black void, and the collapsing Dream World released the ravenous ancient Dark Beings sealed within it.
• The returning world rules clashed with the Holy Soil’s new rules, shattering Saint Messiah III’s God's Kingdom and halting the Holy Messiah Empire’s transformation.
• The clash’s aftermath devastated Saint Messiah III and weakened the Holy Radiance Church’s Faith Power, while Ninth Rank Limit powerhouses discovered that the Legendary Barrier had broken.
• The rule wave struck the newly returned Dark Beings, erasing the weaker ones while the strongest and most ancient endured.

After destroying the Gray-White Sphere, Anvis met the Game System, Wakoreyet, and learned that it had brought humans from Blue Star to Uniwal in an attempt to awaken the sleeping world. When Anvis accused it of predetermining his life and the world’s events, Wakoreyet showed him scenes from Uniwal across countless timelines.

• After destroying the Gray-White Sphere, Anvis found himself trapped in darkness and encountered a silver Octahedral Crystal.
• Wakoreyet revealed that it was the Game System and explained that Uniwal was real and that it had brought humans from Blue Star to help awaken the sleeping world.
• Wakoreyet described its past attempts to awaken Uniwal, including drawing the World Tree Bodhmund and Purple Moon Emis to the world.
• Wakoreyet explained that ending Uniwal's Dream Ritual made humanity's new rules collide with Uniwal's original rules, creating a powerful stimulus.
• Anvis accused Wakoreyet of arranging his transmigration and the events of his life, and Wakoreyet showed him scenes of Uniwal across countless timelines.

Anvis learned that his actions had changed this World Line, allowing Uniwal to awaken and the world to escape its destined destruction. With the world's rules restored, he reached the Legendary Rank and prepared to seek greater power in the Abyssal Sea.

• Wakoreyet told Anvis that countless timelines ended in darkness, but his influence had enabled Human Civilization to restore Uniwal's rules.
• Anvis realized that Yanile had needed his Twisted Seed to retain his consciousness and bear complete rules.
• Uniwal awakened, told Anvis it had driven away the sealed ancient Dark Beings, and said it was time for him to break through.
• Anvis mastered Rule Power, reached the Legendary Rank, and transformed snow into a gold coin without using mana.
• Uniwal told Anvis to seek Abyssal Sea essence and connect with the Sea of Origin if he wished to advance further.
• Anvis said he would find Wakoreyet, then rested in the snow atop the Fate Stone Tower.

Anvis visited the Continental Magic Council, helped stabilize the aftermath of the failed godhood ascension, and appointed Lanno to rule the Gloria Empire before preparing to leave for the Abyssal Sea. As Anvis set out with Claire, Fiona asked to go with him, and he welcomed her along.

• The Continental Magic Council honored Anvis for saving the world and restoring its rules.
• Yanile became Saint Messiah IV, calmed the Holy Radiance Church, and showed Anvis a new point of light within the Crystal Stone.
• Anvis left Yanile in charge of Yar Continent and prepared to seek advancement in the Abyssal Sea.
• After ending the Gloria Empire's civil war, Anvis appointed Lanno as Gloria IV and transferred the title of Duke Carlras to Fiona.
• Anvis and Claire prepared to depart from Carlras City, but Fiona asked to join them, and Anvis agreed.